Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:42:12 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use faster check for modules in backtrace on 64bit |
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:31:16PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > This has the (small) potential to get a false positive on a pointer to a > data segment in a module. However since we also use the frame pointer > chain as initial sanity check I think the danger of this is very low. >
So this has come up several times; and the answer has always been, why not make the __module_address() thing a rb-tree instead of a linear loop. So I suppose I'll ask that again, why not?
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